Providing yet more brutal evidence of the threat that the UK’s ongoing small-boats emergency poses to the safety of women and girls in Britain, two Afghan teenagers seeking refuge in the UK have been jailed for the rape of a fifteen-year-old girl in Leamington Spa – a Warwickshire town known for its fine Regency architecture and beautiful public parks such as Jephson Gardens.
Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both seventeen years of age, pleaded guilty to the 10 May attack at a sentencing hearing in October at Warwick Crown Court.
At the time of the attack, both were living in taxpayer-funded accommodation. Judge Sylvia de Bertodano decided to lift reporting restrictions on naming the boys (who arrived in the UK by crossing the English Channel on small boats), after applications were submitted by media organisations such as the BBC.
It has been reported that the barristers for Jahanzeb and Niazal had unsuccessfully attempted to prevent their names being made public, arguing that it could lead to “widespread public disorder”. Both will start their sentences in a Young Offenders' Institution and move to prison at a later point.
The rape of the underage girl in Leamington Spa shows that the number of places in Britain which are distanced from the impact of the small-boats crisis is fast narrowing – the provincial towns of Middle England are anything but safe.
The sentencing of Jahanzeb and Niazal follows the guilty plea submitted by 23-year-old Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil – also at Warwick Crown Court – to one count of raping a child under the age of thirteen (in the market town of Nuneaton in northern Warwickshire).
He appeared alongside co-defendant Mohammad Kabir (also a 23-year-old Afghan national), who denied attempting to take a child, aiding and abetting rape of a child under 13, and intentional strangulation.
The allegations against Mulakhil and Kabir resulted in anti-immigration protests outside Nuneaton Town Hall, where St George’s Cross and Union flags were held, with demonstrators chanting “stop the boats” and “we want our country back”.
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It is time to be brutally honest – not all cultures are equal, especially when it comes to the rights, protection, and treatment of women and girls.
This reality has been well and truly laid bare by Britain’s illegal immigration crisis, which has fundamentally undermined female public safety.
The small-boats emergency is not only a male-dominant form of unpermitted migration – the arrivals are predominantly younger unattached males who originate from parts of the world with vastly different social and cultural norms.
While a well-ordered refugee policy would prioritise women and girls who are at immediate risk of sex-based violence in conflict-affected territories, the UK’s lax borders and dysfunctional asylum system have resulted in violent males from countries such as Afghanistan wreaking havoc in traditionally pleasant English provincial towns.
Without robust border security and a rigorously selective asylum system which considers matters of security and integration in modern Britain, more British schoolgirls will suffer at the hands of male illegal migrants who originate from hotbeds of violent misogyny.
If the true marker of an advanced civilised society is to what extent it protects its more exposed and vulnerable members, then Britain is failing miserably.
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